The project general aim is to support the research systems of two countries, India (an emerging economy/EE) and Kenya (a Developing Country/DC), by assisting them in developing their own research ethics perspective within the context of an initiative in favour of research act...

The purpose of this action is to build the capacity of European disabled people’s organisations in civil society for participation in the Framework 7 research programme and other relevant initiatives. The support action builds capacity by stimulating participation within the ...

It is well known that in order to ensure a good allocation of public funds and to guarantee the rights of final users of the statistics (government, research institutes and citizens) statistical data on monetary and supplementary poverty indicators have to be timely and effec...

Data that is missing due to nonresponse impose a serious threat to the quality of statistics that are based on both surveys and registers. In most cases nonresponse relates to demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the selected persons or enterprises and importantl...

The challenges facing international intermodal container logistics is efficiency and security. These seemingly conflicting issues have a common solution: supply chain visibility, where data for visibility can be shared between business and government. Since technical solution...

The goal of PLANETS is to devise robust scenarios for the evolution of energy technologies in the next 50 years. This is achieved by means of an ensemble of quantitative and analytical tools that are designed to foresee the best technological hedging policy in response to fut...

A consistent implementation of art. 8 of the Services Directive requires to take stock in existing services within Member States and to develop interoperable exchanges of authentic electronic dossiers. The LSP SPOC intends to address these issues by differentiating informatio...

Public health is of growing importance to the European Union and its citizens. STEPS is designed to increase civil society organisation participation in the development of public health research in each of the twelve new member states, and in Europe as a whole. The project ha...

A prototype induced polarization tomography (IPT) system is being developed for the non-invasive geoelectric mapping and monitoring of contaminants at industrial and waste disposal sites. Induced polarization is an electrochemical surface effect which has the potential to dete...